Strong safety Danieal Manning is the team’s best kickoff returner, but Kubiak doesn’t want to risk him getting injured because he’s so valuable to the secondary.

“Until (free safety) Ed (Reed) gets healthy, I don’t think you’ll see Danieal back there,” Kubiak said. If Ed’s healthy, and we’re healthy on the back end with the numbers of safeties we’ve kept on this team, then I would feel comfortable doing it.”